Manly-Warrnigah Sea Eagles

Georgallis joins Manly as Toovey's #2.

Steve Georgallis will replace Brad Arthur as the Manly assistant coach for the 2014 NRL season.
Georgallis, who served a similar role with Wests Tigers in 2012, having worked previously with Penrith, where he served as caretaker coach at the end of the 2011 season, takes over from Arthur after his appointment at Parramatta last month.
"In the end it was a pretty easy decision to make," Georgallis said.
"I'm just really happy to be here and to be able to work with Geoff Toovey, David Penna and all the other trainers and staff.
"The team itself has a great culture, they're a tough team. I'm really looking forward to working with the players and trying to get the best out of them to hopefully go one better next year."
Toovey welcomed Georgallis to the club and believes Manly have made the right decision to ensure they stay at the top of the NRL in 2014.
"Steve comes with a wealth of experience, both as a player and coach, and we're excited to have him on board," Toovey said.
"To stay at the top in the NRL, you've got to be thinking ahead and constantly freshening things up and we definitely feel that this is something Steve can bring to our set-up."

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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.....

Jamil Hopoate jailed for drunken assault

Updated: 2:24 pm, Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Promising NRL player Jamil Hopoate has been jailed for an attack on a man outside a Manly hotel.

Promising NRL player Jamil Hopoate has been jailed for at least one year over the drunken, brutal and unprovoked attack of a man outside a Sydney pub.

After the sentence was handed down the 20-year-old hugged and kissed his father John Hopoate, a former NRL player, before he was taken into custody.

Hopoate pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in company to the unprovoked attack on Alexander Christie and 'good Samaritan' Timothy Blackett outside a Manly hotel on Sydney's northern beaches in February.

In sentencing him on Wednesday, Magistrate Jane Mottley said a term of imprisonment was the only appropriate penalty.

'To say the community as a whole is deeply concerned about this type of gratuitous violence is an understatement,' she said.

The court heard Hopoate was captured on CCTV outside the Ivanhoe Hotel arguing with a security guard after he was ejected from the premises.

His co-offenders John and Luke Akauola then arrived and set upon Mr Christie, who was talking on his mobile phone, punching and kicking him.

Mr Blackett tried to intervene but was 'cast aside like a toy' so the brutal assault could continue, Ms Mottley said.

Just as Mr Christie tried to rouse himself from the ground, Hopoate ran over and kicked him before Luke Akauola delivered the final blow that rendered their victim unconscious.

The trio then left the scene.

The court heard Hopoate had 'self-medicated' with alcohol in an attempt to deal with his anxiety problems and had been placed under pressure to follow the sporting successes of his father John and brother Will.

Ms Mottley said his parents might have been 'too supportive' of his sporting career by taking over his affairs and leaving him with few life or emotional skills.

She sentenced him to a minimum of one year in prison, and a maximum of 18 months for the attack on Mr Christie.

He was also placed a two-year good behaviour bond over the assault on Mr Blackett.

The Akauolas will be sentenced next year.

 

Jamil is definitely a 'warnigah'

 

William is the white sheep in ablack sheep family it seems

 

Your kids will be the ones with daddy issues

 

Stop crying to the admins when you've run around in the Hughes thread being an absolute cunt

 

Father of the year hes going to see them half the time how exceptional... gmafb